A25: Significant market players licence information
Identify and assess means of requesting significant market players to licence information about their products or services. Examine the feasibility of measures that could lead significant market players to license interoperability information.

What is the problem?

Companies which dominate the ICT sector achieve wide market penetration of their products and services. If their products are incompatible with those of other brands, users feel locked into the dominant company's product range, for fear that any new devices they purchase will not be compatible with their existing equipment.

Why is EU action required?

Companies should provide interoperability information about their devices and applications. With this information available, smaller enterprises have the opportunity to develop applications and services compatible with those offered by dominant market players. The end result will be an extremely competitive market and a happy consumer.

What will the Commission do?

The Commission will analyse how the market situation could change if the significant market players were legally forced to disclose interoperability information and if necessary will draft Commission Communication or a Directive by 2012.

Contact:

rainer.zimmermann@ec.europa.eu



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Digital Agenda for Europe »Digital Agenda for Europe
Pillars & Actions »Pillars & Actions
P2: Interoperability and Standards »P2: Interoperability and Standards
A25: Significant market players licence information
W3: Interoperability and standards: making it happen »W3: Interoperability and standards: making it happen
DG INFSO »DG INFSO
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